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![“The Trondheim post road” from Gaulen, Lindås.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_312_postveg_gaulen_lindas_150.jpg?itok=PMPplx4t)
![The sites show the longhouse, a smaller “old folk’s house” and a hayshed.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/3151.jpg?itok=c_m0Rz1s)
Lurekalven
Lurekalven is an unpopulated island of heather moor which is a part of the wilderness belonging to the five farms on Ytre Lygra. Between the two islands there is only a small sound. As late as the 1920s, milking cows were rowed over the sound from Lygra in summer – a form of farming that was adapted to the coastal landscape.
![Burning heath](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-315-1.jpg?itok=ppNzj4Tv)
Lygra
The heath landscape on outer Lygra, Utluro and Lurekalven will in future become part of a landscape protection area, to be maintained through traditional activities with year-round outdoor sheep, grazing and burning. The West Norwegian heath country belongs to a large North Atlantic coastal landscape stretching from the Bay of Biscay to the Lofoten islands.
![The potato cellar at Verastunet is still in good condition.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_316_veras_potetkjeller_150.jpg?itok=BG46uTxF)
![Husebø](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/meland_6.jpg?itok=PSkD2Zyl)
Husebø
When the Corncrake returned to Nordhordland, it came as no surprise that Husebø was the place it chose. Here, remnants of the old cultural landscape are still in good condition. And the Corncrake is not alone in appreciating this.
![The farms on Toska lie on moraine soils from the Herdla moraine.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/radoy_21.jpg?itok=Zzbp7oRx)
Toska
The peat bogs on Toska have been mined for peat since 1946, when the island got electricity. In this treeless coastal landscape, peat was the most important source of energy, and this took quite a toll on the bogs.
![Kårstad, Veafjorden](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_336_zz.jpg?itok=A1-9xe5P)
![Espevær around 1915, at “Biekronå”.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_204-1.jpg?itok=Nv-R-Syf)
Espevær- the Trading Post
In the sea west of Bømlo lies Espevær, half an hour’s rowing trip across the sound from Vespestadvågen. This is a well-run and well-maintained local community, established on the back of the rich herring fisheries in the 1850s. It is fishermen, skippers and the tradesmen who have made their mark on the culture in Espevær, with their contacts to the south towards Haugesund and across the North Sea to the British Isles.
![Hiskholmen around 1900](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_204-3.jpg?itok=auLrXoCL)
![Kyrping at the turn of the 19th century](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_190.1.jpg?itok=mrZ32D0n)
Kyrping
The trading post down by the fjord at Kyrping does not belong to the oldest group of trading posts from the 1600s and 1700s. It was only after the liberalisation of the trading legislation that trade was established here.